Art y Culture + Musica Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 16, 2009

15th annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza in San Antonio – more than 1,000 professional & student musicians participating – 8-day festival of mariachi competitions, workshops, presentations, serenades & concerts attracts more than 15,000 visitors annually.

November 12, 2009

Charlotte’s classical-music station, Davidson College’s WDAV-FM (89.9), is looking at adding a Spanish channel. – Called “Concierto,” it would be broadcast on one of WDAV’s HD radio channels and streamed on the Web.

October 26, 2009

As she embarks on her first tour of the U.S., singer-songwriter Yasmin Levy, 34, has built an estimable reputation as a champion of Ladino music, the ancient music of the Sephardic Jews of Spain.

October 12, 2009

Berklee music school reaches out to Latin America – the school has launched an even more aggressive effort to recruit more and be a dominant force in music education in Spanish-speaking countries.

October 1, 2009

Latin jazz artist Nestor Torres to mentor Martin County students

UNESCO Declares Tango Part of World Cultural Heritage

Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Wednesday at the age of 28, deploying digital tools to draw a younger and less elite audience to classical music.

September 22, 2009

Mayans ‘played’ pyramids to make music for rain god

August 27, 2009

Ecuador: XXII National Festival of Ecuadorian Music

August 16, 2009

In Los Angeles, Songs Without Borders – In clubs, bars, swap meets and concert halls, from car radios and ringing cellphones, you will hear corridos, old-time folk ballads in the banda and norteño styles

July 15, 2009

In 39 years performing, Afro-Peruvian songstress Eva Ayllón has recorded almost 30 albums, played for audiences 30,000-strong in her homeland and, last November, packed Carnegie Hall. – catch her in NYC at the Blender Theater at Gramercy July 17 and 18.

July 9, 2009

Reggaeton fever shakes up Cuba’s culture

June 25, 2009

Museo Alameda’s exhibit explores influence of Latinos on American music

June 24, 2009

Los Angeles Accordion Festival takes you on a musical journey from 1920’s Paris to Mexico and Louisiana

June 23, 2009

Las Américas, the final and most broad-reaching program of the Nuestra Música: Music in Latino Culture Smithsonian Folklife Festival “living exhibitions” series

April 2, 2009

Hispanic nightclubs fuse cultures, music – Oregon

March 10, 2009

‘Trail of Tejano Legends’ leads to Hispanic music history – Austin

February 16, 2009

Joe Cuba: The Father of New York Boogaloo has passed

January 28, 2009

Hispanic Classical Music Wonders to Fire Up Audiences at Top International Music Festival

December 20, 2008

The Gringo’s, er, Dummy’s Guide to zarzuela

December 12, 2008

Chicano Rock on the Small Screen – CHICANO ROCK! THE SOUNDS OF EAST LOS ANGELES – TV documentary filled with intimate first person story-telling, rare film and photos, and ever-changing and exuberant music

December 3, 2008

Venezuela ‘exporta’ a EE UU su sistema de orquestas juveniles – El modelo de José Antonio Abreu se implantará en zonas como el Bronx

November 21, 2008

Young conductor Gustavo Dudamel lives his dream

November 17, 2008

Sarah Aroeste, keeping Ladino music alive

October 20, 2008

Academia de música mexicana en El Barrio inicia sexto año de clases – Manhattan

October 2, 2008

The Chicano Movement Through Music and Fine Arts – Emmy Award Winner Hector A. Gonzalez spreads the word in Texas

September 9, 2008

El Sereno instrument-maker carves out a niche – Cesar Augusto Castro Gonzalez started learning folkloric music and making the instruments as a youth in his native Veracruz, Mexico.

U.S. Postal Service Celebrates Latin Jazz, Hispanic Heritage

September 8, 2008

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels opens its doors to mariachi camp – Los Angeles

September 5, 2008

University of Central Florida’s Latin American Festival Honors Puerto Rico’s Guitar Maker – Don Manuel Velázquez

September 3, 2008

Flaco, de impecable guayabera, siempre sonriente, así recordaron los cubanos en el centenario de su natalicio, al legendario Joseíto Fernández el compositor de “La Guantanamera”, la canción emblemática de la isla.

August 18, 2008

Internet, digital downloads can keep Tejano music alive, summit in Dallas told

August 6, 2008

Pablo Mayor’s energetic journey through Colombian music roots – Folklore Urbano

August 3, 2008

Chicago Latino Music Festival gets ready to cover 6 centuries in city

July 17, 2008

Narcocarridos sing of violence

May 1, 2008

Susanna Baca’s Peruvian Passion

Mariachi students, Colorado Symphony Orchestra to team up – Denver

April 29, 2008

MSU professor’s ‘Rumba Sinfónica’ to be performed by Detroit Symphony Orchestra

April 25, 2008

A three-day conference honoring the late Guillermo Hernández, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA and a leading scholar of Mexican narrative ballads, will take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara in May. “The Sixth International Corrido (Mexican Narrative Ballad) Conference” will also celebrate the work and memory of composer and vocalist Lalo Guerrero.

March 24, 2008

Hispanic listeners embraced – Changing demographics offer new opportunities for Cleveland Orchestra

March 13, 2008

No barriers for Mexico Symphony Orchestran

February 5, 2008

UC Berkeley music professor and renowned composer Jorge Liderman (Argentinian) committed suicide Sunday morning by jumping in front of a BART train

February 4, 2008

Musician’s sounds survived the tomb – pre-Columbian bone instruments

January 31, 2008

A Latin American plaza springs up in Chicago – at The Old Town School of Folk Music

January 24, 2008

Sought-after Peruvian conductor debuts at Carnegie – Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Perú Negro showcases new CD ‘Zamba Malató’ at City Center – NYC

January 14, 2008

Austin School District To Host Second Annual All-City Mariachi Festival on Saturday, January 26, 2008

January 3, 2008

Latin choral group mirrors San Francisco community

December 11, 2007

The Death of a Mexican Musician – Heber Rasgado

December 10, 2007

Marcos Loya has gone from a rough childhood to a magic career – A kid marked for prison or grunt work surprised everyone by becoming a world-class composer and the musical force behind SCR’s ‘La Posada Mágica.’

November 4, 2007

NPR Music: Pepe Romero and the Art of the Spanish Guitar

October 14, 2007

American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music Opens at EMP|SFM Oct. 13 – Seattle

September 30, 2007

Composer Roberto Sierra is leading a Latino invasion of the classical world

September 9, 2007

Mexican pianist, Jorge Federico Osorio, wins over San Jose crowds – California

July 12, 2007

Celia Cruz — the play — coming to New York City

Xiomara Laugart to play Celia Cruz in musical

April 29, 2007

Local singer achieved stardom in mariachi – Debra Martinez in New Mexico

April 22, 2007

Why do we love mariachi?

April 19, 2007

¡Viva Mariachi! – Teen musicians in training and thousands of spectators are drawn every year to the Tucson International Mariachi Conference

April 11, 2007

Los Angeles Philharmonic names young Venezuelan next musical director – Gustavo Dudamel

MPR: Viva the zarzuela

January 18, 2007

Great Scot Bagpipes, Spanish-style

January 4, 2007

Renowned Pianists Alejandro Vela and Rodolfo Morales Lead Concert of Living Mexican Composers – Houston

January 3, 2007

The history of the boleros

December 15, 2006

PASADENA SYMPHONY TO PRESENT LATINO SINFONICA, THANKS TO A $50,000 GRANT FROM THE IRVINE FOUNDATION

December 14, 2006

Esa Noche Yo Baila – Feast and Devotion in High Peru of the 17th Century

November 10, 2006

Susana Baca enhances experience for Luna Negra’s dancers

October 31, 2006

Catch a train & some Latin Grammys flavor – New York City

October 30, 2006

Music Documentary Tocar y Luchar Premiers at the American Film Institute Festival: AFIFEST

October 15, 2006

Afro-Peruvian is Susana Baca’s beat

October 11, 2006

Musical group keeps Spanish tradition alive – La Tuna de West Palm Beach, Florida

Rapping Mexico

October 9, 2006

New wave of Latin singers spins politics in a different direction

October 2, 2006

Interview with Michele Dominguez Greene

September 14, 2006

Television film is tuned to rhythms of the boro – South Bronx, New York

September 5, 2006

MPR: A tour of Mexican music in the Twin Cities

“Cottonfields and Crossroads”: rich Texas music history detailed

August 29, 2006

Celia Cruz Salsas into Museums across the United States; Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Celebrates Life and Legacy of Queen of Salsa

August 21, 2006

Salsa music hasn’t been the same since. The life of Celia Cruz, unrivaled queen of the genre, is the focus of a new L.A. exhibit.

August 15, 2006

Puerto Rico’s voice of salsa, lost but found. Marc Anthony as Hector Lavoe in the movie “El Cantante” (”The Singer”)

July 9, 2006

Follow conga line to Queens – for culture

June 26, 2006

Israel (Cachao) Lopez: the man who created the mambo

August 8, 2005

10 most popular songs in Spanish August 4th 2005